Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Black Athletes Being Slaves To White Audiences

This is a crazy subject for me especially since I played basketball for a living. I believe that black athletes are slaves to the white fans. I am not typing about monitary things because most pro athletes get paid a lot of money. Thing is once they are done why are they not becoming owners or in upper management in sports? It's the same cycle over and over. Most pro sports are populated with African American athletes but seems like it doesn't translate to ownership. Why? One of the reasons being that it's hard for blacks to move into the "good ol boy" network. Most of those positions are held by white men who love exploiting athletes at every turn. They have no problem seeing them entertain white audiences and making fools of themselves in the process. But when it comes to bringing them into the network it doesn't happen. When a black athlete has outlived his usefulness there is hardly ever an offer into upper management of sports teams. Or why isn't some owner taking a black athlete under his wing and teach him the business and groom him to be his successor? They do it for white athletes all the time. This has been happening for over 80 years. Majority of athletes that are in pro sports are black, you would think there would be some that own a pro team. In football guess how many teams are owned by a black man? Try NONE!!!!!!!!!! Baseball? Same thing. Basketball? A total of one (Michael Jordan). ONE BLACK OWNER IN THE 3 MAJOR SPORTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I won't even mention hockey. LOL!!!!!!!!! So if whites really want to use equality and fair hiring practices put your money where your mouth is. Start encouraging African Americans to own pro sports teams. This is my rant for today. God Bless.     

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